Cenotaph — A cenotaph is a tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been interred elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek κενοτάϕιον (… … Wikipedia

cenotaph — UK [ˈsenətɑːf] / US [ˈsenəˌtæf] noun [countable] Word forms cenotaph : singular cenotaph plural cenotaphs a) a large structure built to remind people of soldiers, sailors etc who died in wars b) the Cenotaph the structure like this in Whitehall,… … English dictionary

cenotaph — [17] A cenotaph is literally an ‘empty tomb’: the word comes, via French and Latin, from Greek kenotaphion, from kenos ‘empty’ and taphos ‘tomb’. The idea behind the name is that someone who had been killed far away from 101 chair his or her home … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins